[spetrillo]

Ok here is my take on all of this...

I flashed the Sprint "leaked" ROM last night and let the customizations run. So this morning I had a yellow looking phone. I immediately flashed my VZW 5067 kitchen ROM and my phone came up with a solid roaming indicator and instead of saying Verizon Wireless it said Preferred System. After reading the threads I am getting this because I let the customizations run, which updated the PRI. My PRI is listed at 2.03_003 right now and the only way to get back to a VZW phone is to back it down to 1.37, which I guess is the VZW supported PRI.

I do have to say while on the 2.03_003 PRI, and incorporating the GPS that HetaldP mentioned, I was able to get a SAT lock in seconds. I do enable SmartGPSMode since I have an unlimited data plan, and that obviously helps. I plan on backing down my PRI asap and then will re-test GPS.

So based on my experience I would not let customizations run. While the PRI does get updated it screws your phone up. VZW needs to address this asap, and I guess we will have to wait until they bring out a stock ROM.

Steve